Posted on 07/29/2006 5:44:49 AM PDT by shrinkermd
Among the captured documents of the Iraqi Intelligence Services is a memo written in Arabic that describes pre-war intel from an Iraqi source working in Syria. Dated July 13, the memo itself was written after the invasion, but it describes the movement of trucks from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasions. Document ISGQ-2005-00022470 has notations reading "DOD" that indicate the Pentagon has already reviewed the data:
ISGQ-2005-00022470 PAGE (1) MR. HOGGER (KURDISH NAME) REGARDS, KINDLY REVIEW THOSE PAGES AND PLEASE FORWARD THEM TO MRS.MONA FOR FURTHER REVIEW AFTER TRANSLATION THANK YOU SIGNED ABO ABDULLAH JULY 13TH
ESQUIRE, THE DIRECTOR OF COORDINATION AND FOLLOW UP OFFICE
July.13th
Subject: we have information about the location of Mass Destruction Weapons
On Moharram 10th (Arabic calendar), prior to US/allied invasion to Iraq, fifty (50) Iraqi trucks entered Syria as convoys (or groups), I met some the drivers of those trucks, they got no idea about the content of their trucks.
The loads basically came from some where in Baghdad, Iraqi intelligence were escorting the loads. During their tripe, those truck drivers were stopped and asked frequently by the intelligence officers about whether or not they got any idea about the content of their loads, the divers replied “we have no idea”, then the officers would say “thank you”.
Upon their arrival to Deayr Ezoor city/ Syria, the drivers were ordered to get down, elements from Syrian intelligence got into the trucks, they took the trucks to big barracks for downloading.
After that; Iraqi drivers got their trucks back, they got $200 as a reward.
The drivers told me that it was their second time to bring such secret shipment; the first shipment was Moharram 1st.
I have a friend in Syria working in Syrian company, the man has ½ of the company, and the other ½ belongs to a Syrian businessman.
This Iraqi person, a former counselor at Iraqi embassies, has strong connections with Iraqi embassy in Syria, he knows all Iraqi intelligence men there, and he has no idea that I am working with the Iraqi opposition in Syria.
I used to visit him daily during that period to listen to the important news.
When the trucks arrived to Syria, I visited him, told him “Iraqi weapons got inside Syria”, he replied “who told you”, I said “I have my own resources”, he replied “don’t tell any one about that because actually it is inside”.
For those unfamiliar with the Muslim calendar, 10 Mohorram would equate to March 14th for 2003 -- or a little over a week before our invasion of Iraq. The opposition source told the Kurds that the trucks arrived in Dayr az Zawr, a Syrian city on the Euphrates in the expansive eastern section of Syria. A look at a map shows Dayr az Zawr in the middle of nowhere, with plenty of space to hide stockpiles from 50 trucks.
After unloading the trucks -- taking care to separate the Iraqi drivers from their vehicles while doing so -- the Syrians returned the trucks to the drivers and paid each of them $200, a rather princely sum for an Iraqi in 2003. And that was the second such convoy that IIS officers conducted into Syria; the first had been on Mohorram 1, or March 5th.
While this is not quite a smoking gun, it provides yet another piece of evidence pointing to a massive operation to hide Iraq's WMDs. Saddam Hussein must have thought that if the Coalition could not find the WMDs, they would have to withdraw and allow him to assume power once more. It would explain why he allowed so much of his army to disappear rather than fight; he expected to command them again within a few weeks. In fact, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri told Time Magazine that Saddam had made a mistake allowing the army to fight at all:
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam's top lieutenant with a $10 million bounty on his head, struck a defiant tone in an intervew appearing on Time magazine's Web site in which he wrote out answers to questions sent in May through intermediaries. Time said it wasn't clear when his answers were written.
Al-Douri, the highest-ranking figure from Saddam's regime still at large and the "king of clubs" on the most wanted list, said Saddam blundered by having his army confront the U.S.-led invasion force instead of holding it in reserve to fight a guerrilla war, but he said the old army has bounced back.
This movement of the weapons also appeased Russia, which helped Saddam build them. The Russians did not want the US to discover the weapons stores and pressed Saddam to get them somewhere else, and fast. American intel has long claimed to have seen these convoys streaming across western Iraq into Syria, and this provides a more complete picture as to what they did when they arrived.
Posted by Captain Ed at 01:59 PM | Comments (25) | TrackBa
If you were to take a dozen liberal weenies and set them on a WMD brought out of iraq, and blew it up, in 2 seconds they'd be in hell saying, "That lying George Bush, there werent any WMD."
I think the answer is very simple. There is a reason, a really good reason, why Bush and this administration have to keep the disposition of the WMD a secret. The Rats may not know what the reason is but they know its been decided to by Bush to keep it quiet. They know Bush will not defend himself with the truth so they are free to attack.
You must be the smartest Freeper alive. No wait, you are the smartest person living. No wait, you are more powerful than God.
Only God can do what you want done.
i hate to say it again but Bush has lost his nerve and it is regettable...for us all...blame the demise in iraq
Put your money where your mouth is. What do you propose to remove this threat?
If you have a recommendation then by all means tell us what it is. If your only solution is to blame Bush then thank you and please come and play again.
If that is your plan, it is being done now by Israel with US support. If is being done now, how does that translate as Bush not having the balls to do something that is being done?
DEBKA:
DNW 97, February 14, 2003, a little over a month before the war began, disclosed: “In the last two weeks, our military sources discovered that Iraq staged a major removal of its forbidden weapons systems, sending them overland by truck to Lebanon via Syria.”
Note that this was 2-3 weeks before the specific activities mentioned in the above affidavit, while the UN was giving Hussein 'one last chance'. The convoy operations were apparently supervised by the Russian intelligence services who had supplied much of the weaponry, and I don't think it is much of a stretch at all to suspect that the Russians' major interest in the UN giving a couple more months for Hussein to come clean was in order for them to scrub as many traces of Russian footprints out of Iraq as possible.
No matter their track record, on this one DEBKA had it right.
to the most far right winger of them all (and i thought i was)...i am not blaming bush...but i think both the Israels and the USA seem to be "all of a sudden", since rice got to the state department, very timid in our actions, verbiage, and the like towards Iran, Syria and the terrorists in Lebanon. actually the Israelis more than us seem to be weaken in their resolve and action...we gave them time to carry the water and they have tired before the fire is out. sooner or later both Syria and Iran have to be contained, taken down a notch or two and what a better time than now...actually there is more a cause to do it now than later, after they get the bomb than ever...but i am suggesting that we are not grabbing the advantage and timing to do it now...instead of never!!!!!!!
That's what many had speculated after the first three weeks and that's what many foreign intelligence organs had bee telling us too.
Related:
JV did the original translation here at FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671897/posts
Document: Iraqi Dissident Talks About WMD Moved to Syria
More translations by JV:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~jveritas
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It may be "BS" but it is also a quote fom the DOD
Exactly!
Good catch, thanks.
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